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Pat Alt

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Trustworthy AI, Counterfactual Explanations, Open-Source Software and other PhD things at TU Delft. @julialang.org developer @taija.org Website: www.patalt.org

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Pat Alt@patalt.org · 3mo ago

Just for a day this year but I'm about to head off to @juliacon.org in Mainz 🤗 Send prayers to ze Deutsche Bahn Gott that I please make it in time for my talk on CounterfactualTraining.jl: pretalx.com/juliacon-202...

Teaching Opaque Machine Learning Models Plausible and Actionable Explanations JuliaCon 2026

[CounterfactualTraining.jl](https://github.com/JuliaTrustworthyAI/CounterfactualTraining.jl) leverages [CounterfactualExplanations.jl](https://github.com/JuliaTrustworthyAI/CounterfactualExplanations....

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Pat Alt@patalt.org · 8mo ago

On Monday, I got to finally share our work on counterfactual training @satml.org. Very happy that this conference still features work on explainability and grateful for many positive interactions during the poster session. Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.16205 Julia (beta): github.com/JuliaTrustwo...

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Pat Alt@patalt.org · last yr.

"Reject" despite mostly positive reviews Somehow I'm not as fazed this time, because we have done a ton of robustness checks, the theory checks out and criticism was largely about presentation. I guess the 45 page appendix didn't help ...

Pat Alt@patalt.org · 8mo ago

The Ph.D. is wrapped indeed as of last Wednesday! It was a pleasure and privilege to be working under the supervision @informusiccs.bsky.social and Arie van Deursen these past few years. Thesis: www.patalt.org/thesis/ Defence: www.patalt.org/content/talk... FOSS: @taija.org #julialang

A photo of me presenting my research during the layman's talk of my defence. One of my 'paranymphs', Aleksander Buszydlik, is sitting in front of me.
Pat Alt@patalt.org · 8mo ago

Graduation highlight: my former students and now colleagues gifted me a *PhD Wrapped* of my git commit history and it's a bloodbath. Enjoy* www.patalt.org/content/talk... *viewer discretion advised

Screen shot of selected git commit history.
Pat Alt@patalt.org · last yr.

I love the fact that I can go back to my 3-4yo #julialang project, run `julia +1.8`, then `[ instantiate` and EVERYTHING. JUST. WORKS. I LOVE IT* *Julia, not my 3-4yo code

Pat Alt@patalt.org · last yr.

This work and the chart should go a long way in terms of explaining "why Julia" to AI folks: 1. Autodiff through anything using anything (one day ...) 2. Multiple dispatch fosters extensibility and interoperability of different ecosystems that OOP just doesn't (in practice). 3. See 1.

Guillaume Dalle@gdalle.bsky.social · last yr.

How to make #autodiff user-friendly? What lies beyond the safety of Python-world? Why does it matter for scientific machine learning? All this, and more, in our latest preprint with @adrhill.bsky.social! Spoiler alert: it describes the most useful software I ever wrote. arxiv.org/abs/2505.05542

A comparison of automatic differentiation paradigms between Python and Julia: - In Python, one chooses the autodiff framework first (PyTorch / JAX), then the appropriate scientific library - In Julia, one writes the scientific library first, then one tries to make it compatible with several autodiff frameworks (Enzyme, Zygote, etc)
miguelraz_t@movraxrax.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello Friends! I'm on the job market now! I have a oodles of knowledge for all the software performance engineering tricks in Rust, Julia and other systems languages and would love to work with teams that are looking to skill up in those respects, from back ends to big data crunching!

Pat Alt@patalt.org · 2y ago

whelp! I just reviewed* an obviously AI-generated paper for the first time. Hilariously obvious, sloppy and shameful. I'm going to burn my hard drive now, bye *put together a case for why this is most definitely a hot piece of #genAI trash

Pat Alt@patalt.org · 2y ago

# GenAI: An Unexpected Journey 🚪🚶‍➡️ *enters WhatsApp search* Meta 📣 “LET ME HELP YOU FIND YOUR PASSION. DOG BREED RECs. SOLO TRAVEL TIPS !!!!!!” 🚶🚪

Screenshot of the new WhatsApp search bar, which apparently is no longer actually intended to be used for search. Instead, users are prompted to ask Meta AI to “help [them] find [their] passion” and find “dog breed recs”.
Pat Alt@patalt.org · 2y ago

The kind of x-risk they don’t want you to worry about

a bald man is sitting in a chair with his hand on his chin and looking up .

Alt: a bald man is sitting in a chair with his hand on his chin and looking up .* *Blame the GenAI for this poor quality alt text. To me that’s a bald man apparently called Captain Picard from Star Trek in a dark red uniform doing a facepalm.

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Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2y ago

I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid. And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!?? God, we are fucked.

Cameron@cameron.stream · 2y ago

I'm launching Comind, an open source project to develop a cognitive layer for #ATProto. Comind is intended to build a network of AI agents that collaboratively process information flowing through AT Protocol. I'm looking for contributors interested in the project. github.com/cpfiffer/com...

GitHub - cpfiffer/comind: Open-source components for Comind, the cognitive layer for the web.

Open-source components for Comind, the cognitive layer for the web. - cpfiffer/comind

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